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Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
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Barthes shares his passionate, in-depth knowledge and understanding of photography in Reflections on Photography as mentioned in this paper, examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death.Abstract:
Barthes shares his passionate, in-depth knowledge and understanding of photography. Examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death, these 'reflections on photography' begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs. Then, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposition of his own mind.read more
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Picturing the Charlie Hebdo Incident in Arabic Political Cartoons
TL;DR: This article investigated how Arabic political cartoons portrayed the Charlie Hebdo's mocking cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, which were published in January 2015, and explored the themes communicated by the surveyed cartoons, including identity formation, stereotyping images of Muslims and Islam, racism, and freedom of expression and press.
Gordon Matta-Clark's photographic spaces
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“Image, Music, Text”: Elvis Presley as a Postmodern, Semiotic Construct
TL;DR: For example, this article used the image of an Elvis impersonator to market a series of rollerball pens for no other reason than they come in a variety of colours redolent of the ersatz emeralds and sapphires on the singer's jumpsuit.
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Winning or Losing the West: The Photographic Act:
TL;DR: In this paper, photographic encounters between Red Cloud, Mathew Brady, and others on the frontier of the early West are discussed. But, the early uses of photography created a secondary history: an alteric and alternative history of Indigenous Peoples through an oral storytelling with a perspective of difference in assimilation, disidentification, and resistance.
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Revolution Within the Revolution: A Caracas Collective and the Face of Che Guevara
TL;DR: We are living in a topsy-turvy world, a world where we cannot find our way by abiding by the rules of what once was common sense, and the struggle itself is the great teacher as mentioned in this paper.